http://dspace.epoka.edu.al/handle/1/2123 2026-04-14T15:51:30Z http://dspace.epoka.edu.al/handle/1/2134 Examining Students’ Perceptions of Effective School Characteristics in Relation withCertain Variables Günal, Yurdagül Education is one of the oldest activities in mankind history. In practice, it is divided into two as formal and informal education. The ultimate goal of schools is student learning. The aim of this study is to determine perceptions of secondary school students regarding effectiveness of their school in terms of effective school characteristics and to ind out if their perception varies depending on gender and grade level of students. Present study is a sample of descriptive research as it attempts to highlight relationships between circumstances and whether such relationships vary depending on certain variables. In the study, the Scale for Effective School (SFES), which is developed by Günal (2014), was used as data collection instrument. The validity evidences of the scale, which was administered to ind out students’ perceptions about school effectiveness, were obtained by Explanatory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Conirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). As an evidence of internal reliability of the SFES, Cronbach’s alpha coeficient for total scale was also calculated and found to be α=0.91. Study group was taken from 13 secondary schools in Trabzon province during the 2012-2013 academic year. As a result of the study, relatively the most important subscale of effective schools was found to be “Teaching Leadership”. The second most important subscale was “Positive School-Parent Relationship”. 2015-12-01T00:00:00Z http://dspace.epoka.edu.al/handle/1/2133 The Comparison of Psychological Counselling Students who had Social Skill Education Course and the Students Who did not NESRIN BIROL, Zehra The aim of the study was to examine whether social skill education course had positive effects on social skills of psychological counselling students. Research group were subjected to social skill education course but control group did not. Study participants were 134 university students attending to Psychological Counselling Department. Research group included 78 of the participants who had social skill education course. Control group consisted of 56 participants who were not subjected to social skill education course. All of the participants were the third grade students studying at Karadeniz Technical University, Fatih Educational Faculty, and Psychological Counselling Department. The major instrument in the study was Social Skills Scale, which was adapted for the university students by Galip Yüksel (2004). Also, a personal information form prepared by the researcher was utilized. Social Skills Scale included six sub-scales. T-test was used in the process of data analysis. The indings revealed that there was a correlation between the social control sub-scale and social skill education course. The study also revealed that the male participants in experiment group had signiicantly higher scores than the female students when emotional expressionism was regarded. 2015-12-01T00:00:00Z http://dspace.epoka.edu.al/handle/1/2132 Semantic Approach of Polysemy DAIU, Sonila This article is concerned with the linguistic semantic phenomenon of polysemy. Treated together with homonymy both represent quite complex linguistic phenomena, which deserves proper treatment. In this article we mainly deal with the main sources and cases which create polysemy both in English and Albanian language in order to have a better understanding of the polysemy itself and in relation with homonymy. Using all the time a comparative approach, we have tried to group the main sources of polysemy, illustrating them with relevant examples from both languages. 2015-12-01T00:00:00Z http://dspace.epoka.edu.al/handle/1/2131 Patterns of the Technical Elements of Calvino’s Folktales - a Perfect Play of Combining Words TALKA, Elda Calvino - one of the masters of the contemporary literature and rewriter and transcriber of Italian folktales used an original way of narration, with combining and straightforward indings at the limits of the literary game and functional to fulilling his inquisitive, coherent and literary journey. This article will speciically focus on analysing, basing on scientiic criteria, the features of the Italian folktales, the patterns of its technical elements as well as the ways it has been concerted, rewritten and transcript by Italo Calvino. The writer has wisely selected the most beautiful, original and rare versions of the Italian folktales. He translated them from different dialects enriching them with a variety of approaches from the selected version while preserving their character and inner unity untouched so rendering them more complete and articulable. He managed to integrate, with a mastery hand, the invention of words in case of ellipses or in cases of disintegrations of the lines, by organizing narration with a dexterous language which relects the dialect roots while avoiding “cultivated” expressions. The elastic language used by Calvino is well- intertwined with the dialect, the images, and the expressed rephrasing. In some of its folktales Calvino changed names and lines from the original or changed narration while still respecting the traditions of the original region, or named anonymous characters in order to incite readers’ curiosity. Patterns of the technical elements of the Calvinian folktales have been realized with technical intelligence and artistic mastery. 2015-12-01T00:00:00Z